Role of Chewing Gum in Reducing Post Operative Ileus After Reversal of Ileostomy

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• Last refreshed on: 8 February 2016
• Main ID: NCT02155153
• Date of registration: 01/06/2014
• Prospective Registration: Yes
• Primary sponsor: Services Hospital, Lahore
• Public title: Role of Chewing Gum in Reducing Post Operative Ileus After Reversal of Ileostomy
• Scientific title: The Effect of Gum Chewing on the Duration of Postoperative Ileus and Total Length of Hospital Stay After Reversal of Ileostomy
• Date of first enrolment: June 2014
• Target sample size: 100
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02155153
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Pakistan

Contacts

• Name: Mahmood Ayyaz, FCPS FACS
• Affiliation: Professor of Surgery

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients of either gender with age ranging from 15 to 60 years.

2. Patients whose ileostomies were made for typhoid or tuberculous perforation

3. Patients with no distal obstruction on loopogram.

Exclusion Criteria:

- 1. Patients with age less than 15 years and greater than 60. 2. Patients having
co-morbid factors such as diabetes and ischemic heart disease.

3. Patients whose ileostomy was made for any condition other than typhoid or tuberculosis.



Age minimum: 15 Years
Age maximum: 60 Years
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Postoperative Ileus

Intervention(s)

Other: Sugar Free Chewing Gum

Primary Outcome(s)

passage of flatus [Time Frame: within 48 hours after the operation]

Secondary ID(s)

cg1

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors